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Charles W. (Charles William) Darling
1830–1905
A Civil War veteran who turned his love of history and family memory into books, he wrote with the careful, collecting spirit of a nineteenth-century antiquarian. His work ranges from genealogy and local history to curious subjects like "Anthropophagy," giving modern readers a glimpse of the wide interests that shaped his writing.
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Anthropophagy
by Charles W. (Charles William) Darling
About the author
Born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1830, Charles W. Darling was an American soldier and author best known in his own day as Gen. Charles W. Darling. Sources connected with his life identify him as a Union veteran and a writer, and surviving records link him strongly with Utica, New York, where several of his books were published.
Darling wrote across a surprising range of subjects. Among the works reliably associated with him are Memorial to My Honored Kindred (1888), a family memorial and genealogical work, and Anthropophagy, published in Utica. The mix suggests a writer deeply interested in ancestry, historical record, and unusual byways of culture and scholarship.
He died in 1905. Although he is not widely remembered today, the books and archival traces that remain show someone who tried to preserve people, places, and stories before they slipped from memory.